Music and the Mind

Download or read book Music and the Mind written by Anthony Storr and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1993-10-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Writing with grace and clarity...he touches on everything from the evolution of the Western tonal system, to the Freudian theory of music as infantile escapism, to the differing roles o the right and left brain in perceiving music." WALL STREET JOURNAL Drawing on his own life long passion for music and synthesizing the theories of Plato, Schopenhauer, Stravinsky, Nietzsche, Bartok, and others, distinguished author and psychologist Anthony Storr illuminates music's deep beauty and timeless truth and why and how music is one of the fundamental activities of mankind.